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| Dinar
Total amounts borrowed | 10800
Expenses and legal fees explained above | 700
⟦line⟧ | 11500
4) And from reviewing the decision of the Lay Council taken on December 17, 940, it appeared to the Council
that the agreement was made at the time with the lawyer Mr. M. Theodore that the legal fees
and expenses be five percent of the recovered amount. Considering that the amounts received were/...
four hundred thousand rupees, the entitlement of the mentioned lawyer is twenty thousand rupees, which is equal to 1490
Dinars at the rate of 74.5 fils per rupee, of which seven hundred Dinars were paid by the mentioned institutions
above according to the explained details, and the remainder, amounting to seven hundred and ninety Dinars, the Council decided to pay
from the total amounts borrowed. Accordingly, it decided to purchase a money order in the name of the mentioned lawyer for the amount of one thousand
four hundred and thirty-five Dinars as follows:
| Dinar
The amount paid by the institutions | 700
The amount the Lay Council undertook to pay | 790
⟦line⟧ | 1490
Subtract the amount advanced to the mentioned lawyer on account on the date | 55
⟦line⟧ | 1435
5) And we have considered the contents of the letter dated March 23, 942, received by the Council from the Hospitals Committee
which states that the hospital revenues for the fiscal year ending on the last day of September
942 and for the two following years ending on the last day of September 1944, including
the loan amounts that will be returned to them by us during the three mentioned years as stated
in <del>their letter</del> ⟦sup: the Committee's letter⟧ dated March 23, 942, will be sufficient to cover hospital expenses during
that period, except for an amount of one hundred Dinars which the hospital will need from the general community budget
during each of the three mentioned years.
6) Likewise, the contents of the letter numbered and dated March 24, 942, received by the Council from the Committee of
Schools, which states that the revenues of the Midrash Talmud Torah for the fiscal year ending on the day
the last of September 943 and for the three years following it ending on the last day of
September 1945, including the loan amounts that will be returned to the Midrash fund during the four years
mentioned as stated in the Committee's letter dated March 24, 942, and numbered will be
sufficient to cover the expenses of the Midrash schools during that period <del>and its plan</del> ⟦sup: and that the Committee⟧ agrees to stop the payment of the usual annual
allocations to the Midrash Talmud Torah fund for each of the four years ending on the day
the last of September 945.
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7-) It was decided to send a copy of these resolutions to both the Hospitals Committee and the Schools Committee
as a response to their letters mentioned above
941
as stated in the Executor's letter number ⟦27⟧ dated ⟦...⟧ current
namely: ⟦...⟧ that an inquiry be made from those institutions
which were existing at the time of the death of the testator ⟦R. A.⟧ Kabbay
who passed away on November 7, 922, and that ⟦...⟧ they have no right
to participate in the distributions, and that benefit should be derived from
the list of institutions attached to the aforementioned letter ⟦...⟧
whose petitions reached him prior to the day of August ⟦21⟧, ⟦928⟧
⟦illegible⟧
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M. Laniado
Advocate
6 Ben-Yehuda Street.
M. LANIADO
ADVOCATE
6, BEN-YEHUDA ST.
Advocate M. Laniado
6 Ben-Yehuda Street
Jerusalem
Jerusalem, ⟦line⟧ / Jerusalem, ⟦line⟧
TEL. 2008 / P.O.B. 851
Jerusalem on 31 - 12 - 1941
To the Honorable
The Chief Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri, the respected
Head of the Mosaic Community in Baghdad,
Greetings and respect,
We have received your letter and all that you explained has become known, and for that we thank you.
We inform you that in response to our telegram to our friend Khawaja David Cohen, we received
a telegram from him, and this is its literal translation: "We received your telegram. The reason for the delay in processing is the market decline. We hope
to send the amount before the middle of the past month of January - David Cohen." The meaning of the market
decline is the drop in the prices of securities that must be liquidated and their value sent. We hope that
the amount will reach your hands soon. We intended to inform you of this, while accepting our respect. May you remain safe.
Advocate - Meir Laniado,
⟦signature⟧
Archive
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 531
⟦line⟧
Number:
Date:
Subject:
Baghdad 26th April 1942.
David J. Cohen Esqr.
6 Mongoe Lane,
Calcutta.
Dear Sir,
I have much pleasure to inform you that the share of our Community
from the bequest of R. A. Gubbay has been forwaded to us by the Official
Trustee of Bengal.
On this occasion I wish to thank you in the name of our Community
and myself for your generous help in this connection.
With our best regards,
Yours faithfully.
Sassoon
President
The Jewish Community,
Baghdad.
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone No. 531
Number:
Date:
Subject:
Baghdad 26th April 1942.
Sir David & Lady Ezra Esqrs.
3 Kyd. Street
Calcutta.
Dear Madam & sir.
I have much pleasure to inform your Excellencies that the
share of our Community from the bequest of R. A. Gubbay has been forwarded
to us by the Official trustee of Bengal,
On this occasion I wish to thank you in the name of our Community
and myself for your generous help in this connection.
With our best regards,
Yours faithfully
⟦on behalf of⟧
President
The Jewish Community,
Baghdad.
No. 18, M. ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧ Baghdad
Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to the ⟦...⟧
Hon. President, The Jewish Schools Committee, Baghdad.
⟦...⟧ - 6. ⟦...⟧
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OFFICIAL TRUSTEE
⟦line⟧
30th January, 1942.
⟦illegible⟧
No. 1441
XXXXXXX Trust - under the will of R.A.Gubbay account Jewish
Charitable Institutions in Bagdad.
Sir,
I have the honour to refer you to your letter No. 1286 of the 5th
July and its enclosures. 24/1/18
I have accepted the selection of the five Jewish Charitable Institutions
in Bagdad as made by the Presidents of the Jewish Community and the Jewish Lay
Council, to share the bequest made by the testator the late Mr. R.A.Gubbay of
Hongkong to the Jewish Charitable Institutions in Bagdad.
I send herewith five receipts and five crossed cheques, as under, drawn
by me on the Imperial Bank of India, Calcutta.
(1) Cheque No. 208 dated 30/1/42 for Rs.2,00,000/- (Two lacs) in favour of
the President of the Jewish Lay Council of the Jewish Community of Bagdad and
the President of the Committee of the Meir Elias Hospital. (For Meir Elias
Hospital).
(2) Cheque No. 209 dated 30/1/42 for Rs.93,000/- (Ninetythree thousand) in
favour of the President of the Jewish Lay Council of the Jewish Community of
Bagdad and the President of the Jewish Schools Committee. (For Nouriel Elemen--
tary School for Boys).
(3) Cheque No. 210 dated 30/1/42 for Rs.80,000/- (Eighty thousand) in favour
of the persons as in (2). (For Midrash Talmud Torah).
(4) Cheque No. 211 dated 30/1/42 for Rs.20,000/- (Twenty thousand) in favour
of the persons as in (2). (For Rahel Shahmoon Elementary School for Boys).
(5) Cheque No. 212 dated 30/1/42 for Rs.7330/- (Rupees Seven thousand three
hundred and thirty) in favour of persons as in (2). (For Menahem Saleh Daniel
Elementary School for Girls).
I shall be much obliged if you will kindly make these payments on my
behalf by handing over the cheques to the respective proper party in exchange
for the respective receipts duly signed by the payees. As soon as payments have
been made, please return the receipts to me as vouchers for my record. I am
sending a copy of this letter to the payees and also advising them by cable.
In the meantime please acknowledge receipt hereof.
I enclose a copy of the Exchange Central Department letter No. CA.E.C.
20077/129 of the 13th December 1941 sanctioning these remittances.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
Sd/- C. T. Moore.
Official Trustee of Bengal.
To
H. M. Consul,
British Consulate,
Bagdad.
Memo. No. 1441....
M.N.
Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to the <del>⟦illegible⟧</del>
President, The Jewish Schools Committee, Bagdad.
Calcutta,
The 30th Jan. 1942.
Offl. Trustee of Bengal.
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Jewish Hospitals Committee
Baghdad
Established 1884
Telephone No.: 1480
The Association of Hospital Founders
Baghdad
JEWISH HOSPITALS COMMITTEE
BAGHDAD
Established, 1884
Telephone No. : 1480
Meir Elias Hospital:
Reemah Kadoorie Eye Hospital:
Refouah Pharmacy.:
Meir Elias Hospital:
Reemah Kadoorie Eye Hospital:
Refouah Pharmacy.:
No.:
Date: Baghdad, March 23, 1942
To the Honorable President of the Lay Council of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Greetings and respect,
We expect that the hospitals' revenues for the fiscal year ending on the last day of
September 1942 and for the following two years ending on the last day of September 1944, including
the loan amounts that will be returned to us by you during the three mentioned years as stated in
our letter dated March 22, 1942, will be sufficient to cover the hospitals' expenses during that period except for
an amount of one hundred Dinars that the hospital will need from the general community budget during each of the
three mentioned years. Accordingly, we agree to allocate to us an amount of one hundred Dinars only for each of the mentioned years
ending on the last day of September 1944, noting that this arrangement does not affect the subject of the correspondence
contained in our letter dated 1/27/942 regarding the cessation of the Kadoorie Jewish allocations to the
Reemah Kadoorie Hospital in Baghdad. Respectfully yours,
⟦illegible signature⟧
President of the Hospitals Committee
⟦illegible stamp⟧
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Jewish Hospitals Committee
Baghdad
Established 1884
Telephone No.: 1480
Jewish Hospital Founders Association
Baghdad
JEWISH HOSPITALS COMMITTEE
BAGHDAD
Established, 1884
Telephone No. : 1480
Meir Elias Hospital / Meir Elias Hospital:
Reemah Kadoorie Eye Hospital / Reemah Kadoorie Eye Hospital:
Refouah Pharmacy / Refouah Pharmacy.:
No. / .No:
Date / Date: 23 March 1942
The honorable President of the Lay Council of the Jewish Community, Respected
Baghdad
After greetings and respect
The current global circumstances do not allow us room to spend the dirhams left by
the late Raphael Gabbai in Calcutta to be spent on the Meir Elias Hospital in Baghdad and received
recently from the Administrator General in India. For this reason, our committee has decided to ⟦lend⟧ your council a sum
of six thousand dinars from this money, provided it is returned to us in three equal installments: the first installment on
the last day of September 1942, the second installment on the last day of March 1943,
and the third installment on the last day of March 1944. We are sending you a check for this amount on the Ottoman
Bank in Baghdad under number ⟦8002⟧ and dated 27 March 942, requesting you to inform us of its receipt and your approval
of the mentioned loan under the conditions set forth herein. With respect;
⟦...⟧
President of the Hospitals Committee
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JEWISH SCHOOLS COMMITTEE
JEWISH SCHOOLS COMMITTEE
BAGHDAD
BAGHDAD
No. ⟦line⟧ Number 927
Date, ⟦line⟧ 193 Date 24 March 942
His Excellency the President of the Lay Council, the respected
After greetings and respect,
We expect that the revenues of the Midrash Talmud Torah school for the fiscal year ending on the last day
of the month of September 942 and for the following three years ending on the last day of the month
of September 1945, including the loan amounts that will be returned to the Midrash fund during the four
mentioned years as stated in our letter dated 24 March 942 and numbered 927, will be sufficient to cover
the expenses of the Midrash schools during that period. Accordingly, we agree to suspend the payment of the usual
annual allocations to the Midrash Talmud Torah fund for each of the four years ending on the last day
of the month of September 945. Respectfully yours.
⟦signature⟧
The President
L.H.
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JEWISH SCHOOLS COMMITTEE
JEWISH SCHOOLS COMMITTEE
BAGHDAD
BAGHDAD
⟦line⟧
⟦line⟧
No. ⟦line⟧ Number 929
Date, ⟦line⟧ 193 Date March 24, 942 193
His Excellency the Respected President of the Lay Council
Greetings and Respect,
As current financial conditions do not allow us room to spend the money left by the deceased
Raphael Haron Gabbay in Calcutta to be spent on the Midrash Talmud Torah and the Rivka Nuriel School
in Baghdad, which was recently sent by the Official Administrator of Estates for Bengal in Calcutta according to the checks
attached to his letter numbered 1240 and dated January 30, 942.
For this reason, and in confirmation of the agreement reached between us, we present to your esteemed Council a check on the Ottoman Bank
in the amount of five thousand five hundred Dinars, numbered 308001 and dated March 23, 942. From
this amount:
1 - One thousand nine hundred and sixty Dinars (1960) from the original amount received to be spent on the Midrash
Talmud Torah school in Baghdad as follows:
A - From it, an amount of one thousand seven hundred Dinars (1700) our committee has decided to loan to your Council for the reason
mentioned above, provided it is repaid to the Midrash school fund in four equal installments,
each installment being four hundred and twenty-five Dinars. The first installment on the last day of the month of
September 942, the second installment on the last day of March 1943, the third installment
on the last day of March 1944, and the fourth installment on the last day of
March 1945.
B - From it, an amount of two hundred and sixty Dinars (260), the Midrash's share of legal fees and expenses
which the Council undertook to pay for the collection of the estate amount.
2 - From it, three thousand four hundred and twenty-eight Dinars and nine hundred and fifteen Fils 3428/915
from the original amount received to be spent on the Rivka Nuriel School in Baghdad as follows:
A - From it, three thousand one hundred Dinars our committee has decided to loan to your Council for the same reason at an interest
rate of three and a half percent annually, provided the principal debt and its interest are settled in annual installments
each amounting to one hundred and fifty-five Dinars for a period of thirty-five years.
B - From it, 328/915 three hundred and twenty-eight Dinars and nine hundred and fifteen Fils,
the Rivka Nuriel School's share of legal fees and expenses which the Council undertook to pay
for the collection of the estate amount.
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JEWISH SCHOOLS COMMITTEE JEWISH SCHOOLS COMMITTEE
BAGHDAD BAGHDAD
⟦line⟧ ⟦line⟧
No.:
Number:
Date,:
193:
193:
Date:
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3 - The remainder of the check amount, totaling one hundred eleven dinars and eighty-five fils 111 / 080
for the aforementioned legal fees and expenses, of which 46 / 085 dinars are deducted from the amount
received to be spent on Menachem Salih Daniel School and 65 dinars from the amount received to be spent
on Rachel Shahmoon School. Below is a summary of the attached check amount:-
Fils Dinar
From Midrash Schools | | | |
The loan referred to in paragraph 1 - a of this | 1700 | ــ | |
letter | | | |
The Midrash's share of expenses and legal fees | 260 | ــ | 1960 | ــ
From Rivka Noorael School | | | |
The loan referred to in paragraph 2 - a of this | 3100 | ــ | |
letter | | | |
Noorael School's share of expenses and legal fees | 328 | 915 | 3428 | 915
Menachem Salih Daniel School's share of expenses and legal fees | | | 46 | 085
Rachel Shahmoon School's share of expenses and legal fees | | | 65 | ــ
Only five thousand five hundred dinars and no more | | | 5500 | ــ
Which is the amount of the attached check, for which we request notification of its receipt and your approval of the two mentioned distributions
under the stated conditions. Sincerely.
⟦signature⟧
President
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Copy of the resolution of the Lay Council regarding the Gabbay estate
After reviewing the correspondence ending with letter number 1240 dated January 30, 1942
a copy of which was received by the Lay Council from the Official Trustee of Bengal in Calcutta (India)
concerning the estate of the late Raphael Haron Gabbay who died in Calcutta, and after hearing the explanations of the President
of the Lay Council, who is a member of the Advisory Committee appointed by the aforementioned Official Trustee
to provide advice on this matter, the Council noted the following:-
1) That the late Raphael Haron Gabbay, who died in Calcutta on November 27, 1922, had bequeathed
a portion of his estate to the Jewish charitable institutions in Baghdad and entrusted the execution of this will to
the Official Trustee of Bengal in Calcutta, who agreed at the time to the proposals presented
to him by the lawyer M. ⟦Linhado⟧, who was appointed by the Lay Council by its resolution taken on December 17,
1940, which included appointing an advisory committee in Baghdad consisting of His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri,
President of the Community, and Mr. Eliyahu Hayim Tawfiq, President of the Lay Council, representing the Lay Council, and Mr.
Meir Hakham Moshe Doctor, President of the Hospitals Committee, and Mr. ⟦Moritz Ita⟧, Secretary of
the Schools Committee, representing the schools, and Messrs. Ibrahim Hayim Hakham Isaac, Yehuda Saleh Zeloof, and Menashi
Saleh ⟦Lumo⟧ Daoud from the notables, to give him the necessary advice for nominating the Jewish charitable institutions
in Baghdad that meet the conditions stipulated in the will and which are most deserving and in need of benefiting
from the estate, and on how to distribute the amount of the estate among them.
2) Pursuant to the recommendations submitted by the said committee, the Official Trustee sent the following checks
with the letter referred to above as follows:-
1 - Check No. 208 dated 1/30/1942 for the amount of 200,000 rupees to the order of the President of the Jewish Lay Council
of the Jewish Community and the President of the Jewish Hospitals Committee for the Meir Elias Hospital.
2 - Check No. 209 dated 1/30/1942 for the amount of 93,000 rupees to the order of the President of the Jewish Lay Council
of the Jewish Community and the President of the Jewish Hospitals Committee for Jewish Schools,
to the Nuriel Primary School for Boys.
3 - Check No. 210 dated 1/30/1942 for the amount of 80,000 rupees to the order of the persons mentioned in
paragraph 2 above for the Midrash Talmud Torah School.
4 - Check No. 211 dated 1/30/1942 for the amount of 20,000 rupees to the order of the persons mentioned in
paragraph 2 above for the Rachel Shahmoon Primary School for Boys.
5 - Check No. 212 dated 1/30/1942 for the amount of 7,330 rupees to the order of the persons mentioned in
paragraph 2 above for the Menachem Saleh Daniel Primary School for Girls.
3) Following the arrival of these checks, the Lay Council held several meetings with the Hospitals and Schools
Committees, during which the current financial relations between the Council and the mentioned institutions were discussed,
as well as the financial state of the Council and the current global circumstances that leave no room for spending the funds
left for the aforementioned institutions; an agreement was reached between the Council and the two mentioned committees
for preservation.
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on the following:-
A- That the hospital lends the Lay Council the sum of six thousand dinars to be repaid to the hospital
in three equal installments: the first installment on the last day of September 943, and the installment
the second on the last day of March 1944, and the third installment on the last day of
March 1945. This agreement was confirmed by a letter from the Hospitals Committee dated 23
March 942, according to which it sent a check on the Ottoman Bank numbered 308002 and dated
the 23rd of it to the order of the Lay Council for the mentioned amount, and this amount was deposited by the Council
in the mentioned bank in current account No. 2
B- That the Midrash Talmud Torah lends the sum of one thousand seven hundred dinars to be repaid to the Midrash fund
in four equal annual installments, each installment four hundred and twenty-five dinars; the first installment
on the last day of September 942, and the second installment on the last day of March
943, and the third installment on the last day of March 1944, and the fourth installment
on the last day of March 1945
C- That the Rivka Nureil School lends the sum of three thousand eight hundred dinars at an interest rate of
three and a half percent annually, provided that the principal of the debt and its interest are extinguished by annual installments
the amount of each is one hundred and fifty-five dinars for a period of thirty-five years, and thus
the total of what the Lay Council borrows, as stated above, is ten thousand eight hundred dinars
The agreement explained in paragraphs B and C was confirmed by a letter from the Schools Committee No. ⟦illegible⟧ dated 24 March
942, according to which it sent a check on the Ottoman Bank numbered 308001 and dated 23 / 3 / 942
to the order of the Lay Council for the sum of five thousand five hundred dinars according to the following details:
Dinars | Details
1700 | The amount borrowed from Midrash Talmud Torah according to paragraph B
3800 | The amount borrowed from Rivka Nureil School according to paragraph C
Expenses and legal fees deducted from the following institutions for payment to the lawyer
Fils | Dinars | Details
- | 260 | The share of the Midrash
915 | 328 | The share of Rivka Nureil School
085 | 46 | The share of Menachem Saleh Daniel School
- | 65 | The share of Rachel Shimon School
⟦line⟧ | ⟦line⟧ |
000 | 700 |
⟦line⟧ | ⟦line⟧ |
Which is the amount of the check, and this amount was deposited in the name of the Council in the mentioned bank in the account
current No. 2, and thus the total of the amounts deposited in the mentioned account is eleven thousand five hundred
dinars only as follows
Dinars
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Dinar
10800 Total amounts borrowed
700 Expenses and legal fees explained above
11500
4 - From reviewing the decision of the Lay Council taken on December 17, 940, it appeared to the Council
that the agreement was made at its time with the lawyer Mr. M. L-Nihad, provided that the legal fees
and expenses be five percent of the recovered amounts. Considering that the received amounts are
four hundred thousand rupees, the entitlement of the aforementioned lawyer is twenty thousand rupees, which equals 1490
dinars at the rate of 74.5 fils per rupee, of which seven hundred dinars were paid by the institutions mentioned
above according to the explained details, and the remainder of seven hundred and ninety dinars was decided by the Council to be paid
from the total amounts borrowed. Accordingly, it decided to purchase a transfer in the name of the aforementioned lawyer for the amount of one thousand
four hundred and thirty-five dinars as follows:
Dinar
700 The amount paid by the institutions
790 The amount borne by the Lay Council
1490
55 Deducting the amount advanced to the aforementioned lawyer on account on the date of
1435
5 - We have noted the contents of the letter dated March 23, 942, received by the Council from the Hospitals Committee,
which states that the hospital revenues for the fiscal year ending on the last day of September
942 and for the two following years ending on the last day of September 1944, including
the loan amounts that will be returned to them by us during the three mentioned years, as stated
in their letter ⟦dated⟧ March 23, 942, will be sufficient to cover the hospitals' expenses during
that period, except for an amount of one hundred dinars which the hospital will need from the general community budget
during each of the three mentioned years.
6 - Likewise, the contents of the letter numbered and dated March 24, 942, received by the Council from the
Schools Committee, stating that the revenues of the Talmud Torah schools for the fiscal year ending on the last
day of September 942 and for the three years following it ending on the last day of
September 1945, including the loan amounts that will be returned to the schools' fund during the four mentioned years
as stated in the committee's letter dated March 24, 942, and numbered, will be
sufficient to cover the expenses of the ⟦and the board⟧ schools during that period. Accordingly, we agree to suspend the payment of the usual annual allocations
to the Talmud Torah schools' fund for each of the four years ending on the last
day of September 945.
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7 - ) It was decided to send a copy of these resolutions to both the Hospitals Committee and the Schools Committee
in response to their letters mentioned above
⟦illegible⟧
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M. Laniado Esq.
Advocate.
6 Ben Yahuda Street
Jerusalem
Palestine
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N° 579 / 193711
Baghdad, 24TH. MARCH 19 42
£.PAL. 1433-209
OTTOMAN BANK
At: SIGHT
please pay against this: SECOND of Exchange (the first being unpaid)
to the order of: MR. M. LANIADO
the sum of: ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED THIRTY THREE PALESTINIAN POUNDS & TWO HUNDRED NINE MILS ONLY.
against value received.:
OTTOMAN BANK (BAGHDAD BRANCH)
OTTOMAN BANK,
JERUSALEM.
MANAGER.
⟦signature⟧
SUB-MANAGER.
WATERLOW & SONS LIMITED, LONDON WALL, LONDON, E.C.
2
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6885
25 March 942
To the respected lawyer M. Laniado
Jerusalem
⟦line⟧
After greetings and respect
With reference to the agreement concluded between us according to our letter dated 18 March 941 -
The total amounts we received from the Official Administrator of Estates in Calcutta for the Israeli
charitable institutions in Baghdad is 400,000 Rupees, and therefore your entitlement from this total is
20,000 Rupees calculated at 5 percent as follows:
Dinars |
1490 | 20,000 Rupees x 74.5 fils
55 | The amount previously advanced to you
1435 | Only one thousand four hundred and thirty-five Dinars
We have purchased for you with this amount a sight draft for one thousand four hundred and thirty-three Palestinian Pounds
and two hundred and nine Mils, which you will find enclosed, and we request you to notify us of receipt. Respectfully yours,
⟦illegible signature⟧
President of the Lay Council
Head of the Community
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⟦illegible faint red text⟧
23 March 942
2227
The Ottoman Bank
Baghdad
We request you to instruct the opening of account No. 2 in the name of the Israeli Spiritual Council
in Baghdad.
Vice President ⟦signature⟧
President
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.... The will concludes with the
following proviso :-
" Provided that if my son should
predecease me or die without issue then
to pay the said capital in four equal
parts to such Jewish Charitable Institutions
in Calcutta, Baghdad, England & Jerusalem
respectively as my Trustees may approve of "
⟦line⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦410⟧
⟦Distribution Committee⟧
⟦...⟧
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OFFICIAL TRUSTEE
⟦line⟧
No. 1240
30th January, 1942.
⟦line⟧ Trust - under the will of R.A.Gubbay account Jewish
Charitable Institutions in Bagdad.
Sir,
I have the honour to refer you to your letter No.1286 of the 5th
24/1/18
July and its enclosures.
I have accepted the selection of the five Jewish Charitable Institutions
in Bagdad as made by the Presidents of the Jewish Community and the Jewish Lay
Council, to share the bequest made by the testator the late Mr. R.A.Gubbay of
Hongkong to the Jewish Charitable Institutions in Bagdad.
I send herewith five receipts and five crossed cheques, as under, drawn
by me on the Imperial Bank of India, Calcutta.
(1) Cheque No. 208 dated 30/1/42 for Rs.2,00,000/- (Two lacs) in favour of
the President of the Jewish Lay Council of the Jewish Community of Bagdad and
the President of the Committee of the Meir Elias Hospital.(For Meir Elias
Hospital).
(2) Cheque No. 209 dated 30/1/42 for Rs.93,000/- (Ninetythree thousand) in
favour of the President of the Jewish Lay Council of the Jewish Community of
Bagdad and the President of the Jewish Schools Committee.(For Nouriel Elemen--
tary School for Boys).
(3) Cheque No. 210 dated 30/1/42 for Rs.80,000/- (Eighty thousand) in favour
of the persons as in (2). (For Midrash Talmud Torah).
(4) Cheque No. 211 dated 30/1/42 for Rs.20,000/- (Twenty thousand) in favour
of the persons as in (2). (For Rahel Shahmoon Elementary School for Boys).
(5) Cheque No. 212 dated 30/1/42 for Rs.7330/- (Rupees Seven thousand thr⟦ee⟧
hundred and thirty) in favour of persons as in (2). (For Menahem Saleh Danie⟦l⟧
Elementary School for Girls).
I shall be much obliged if you will kindly make these payments on my
behalf by handing over the cheques to the respective proper party in exchange
for the respective receipts duly signed by the payees. As soon as payments have
been made, please return the receipts to me as vouchers for my record. I am
sending a copy of this letter to the payees and also advising them by cable.
In the meantime please acknowledge receipt hereof.
I enclose a copy of the Exchange Central Department letter No.CA.E.C.
20077/129 of the 13th December 1941 sanctio⟦n⟧ing these remittances.
I have the honour to be,
Sir,
Your most obedient servant,
Sd/- C. T. Moore.
Official Trustee of Bengal.
To
H. M. Consul,
British Consulate,
Bagdad.
M.N.
Memo. No. 1241...
Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to the
President, The Jewish Community, Bagdad.
Calcutta,
The 30th Jany. 1942.
⟦signature⟧
Offl. Trustee of Bengal.
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No. 12439
13th October, 1941.
under the will of R. A. Gubbay.
Re:- Jewish Charitable Institutions at Baghdad.
Dear Sir,
I duly received your letters of the 17th April and 30th June last.
I also received on the 6th instant another letter bearing no date and
signature.
I have already selected five out of the several institutions in
Baghdad applying for a share in the legacy left by the late Mr. R.A.Gubbay
and in this act of selection I have been guided by the recommendations of the
Presidents of the Jewish Community and the Jewish Day Council of Baghdad and
of Mr. D.J.Cohen of Calcutta. I am not therefore now in a position to do
anything to change the allotment already made. As you are aware, I have
allotted Rs.80,000/- for the Midrash Talmudtora. You should better apply to
these Presidents for a share in the above sum for the Midrash of Kift. I am
sending a copy of this letter to these Presidents.
As soon as permission is available from the Exchange Control
Department here, the remittances will be made.
Yours faithfully,
Sd/- C. T. Moore.
Official Trustee of Bengal.
To
Reuben Yahouda Ezra Menashi Esq.,
Mutwalli of Awqaf of Ali Kift
Torat 15/118 Baghdad,
(Iraq).
M.N.
Memo. No. 12440
Copy forwarded for information and necessary action to the
Presidents, The Jewish Community and the Jewish Day Council, Baghdad.
Calcutta,
The 13th October, 1941.
C.T. Moore
Official Trustee of Bengal.
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To the Honorable Chairman of the Midrash Talmud Torah Committee
With respect,
It is no secret to you that in the Al-Kifl sub-district, which is considered one of the sectarian affairs in
the Baghdad Governorate, there is a (Midrash Talmud Torah) established since ancient times by the late
Aaron Gabbay, as confirmed by the writing engraved on the stone placed in the structure of the mentioned Midrash.
Therefore, a portion of the bequest of the late Raphael Aaron Gabbay—the son of Aaron Gabbay, the founder of the aforementioned
Midrash Talmud Torah—belongs to the Midrash Talmud Torah located in the mentioned Kifl.
The bequest allocated for the Midrash Talmud Torah in Baghdad amounts to eighty thousand rupees. We have contacted the
official executor in Bengal and also the British Consul in Baghdad to determine a share of the amount of the
mentioned bequest <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> for the Midrash in Kifl. He replied that we should refer to the Chairman of the Midrash Talmud Torah Committee in
Baghdad, who received the Midrash Talmud Torah's share of the mentioned bequest amount. We hope that you will look
into this matter and take note of the severe need of the aforementioned Kifl Midrash Talmud Torah. Especially
since it is among the charitable legacies of the father of the late Raphael Gabbay, the testator, so please allocate a
sufficient amount for it to rely upon in continuing the teaching of ( ⟦Torah and Fear of Heaven⟧ ) to our community's children
in the Kifl sub-district, so that the charitable legacy of the founder, the father of the testator, is not erased. We believe
that by virtue of your spiritual position, you will appreciate this task as it deserves and designate a sufficient amount
for it. May you remain in peace.
Trustee of the Midrash Talmud
Torah Endowments in Kifl
Reuben Yehuda Ezra Menashe
Reuben Yehuda
Ezra Menashe
Referred to the Schools Committee ⟦...⟧
On behalf of the Chairman of the Schools Committee
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Decision of the Lay Council regarding the estate of the late Raphael Gabbay, taken on March 29, 1942
After reviewing the correspondence concluding with letter No. 1240, dated January 30, 1942, a copy of
which was received by the Lay Council from the Official Trustee of Bengal in Calcutta (India) regarding the estate of
the late Raphael Haron Gabbay, who died in Calcutta, and after hearing the explanations of the President of the Lay Council, who
is one of the members of the Advisory Committee appointed by the aforementioned Official Trustee to provide advice on this matter,
the Council has determined the following:-
1 -- That the late Raphael Haron Gabbay, who died in Calcutta on November 27, 1922, had bequeathed
a portion of his estate to the Jewish charitable institutions in Baghdad and entrusted the execution of this will to the Official
Trustee of Bengal in Calcutta, who agreed at the time to the proposals submitted to him by the lawyer M. Laniado, who
was appointed by the Lay Council by its decision taken on December 17, 1940, which was the appointment of an advisory committee
in Baghdad composed of His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri, President of the Community, and Mr. Eliyahu Hayim Tawfiq, President
of the Lay Council on behalf of the Lay Council, and Mr. Meir Hakham Moshe Doctor, President of the Hospitals Committee on behalf
of the hospitals, and Mr. Meir Etta, Secretary of the Schools Committee on behalf of the schools, and Messrs. Ibrahim Hayim Hakham Isaac, Yehuda
Salih Zeloof, and Menashi Salih Shlomo Daoud from the notables, to provide him with the necessary advice for nominating the Jewish
charitable institutions in Baghdad that meet the conditions stipulated in the will and which are most deserving and in need
to benefit from the estate, and on the method of distributing the amount of the estate among them.
2 -- Pursuant to the recommendations submitted by the aforementioned committee, the Official Trustee sent the following checks with the letter
referred to above as follows:-
1 -- Check No. 208 dated 1/30/1942 for the amount of 200,000 rupees to the order of the President of the Jewish Lay Council
of the Jewish Community and the President of the Jewish Hospitals Committee for Meir Elias Hospital.
2 -- Check No. 209 dated 1/30/1942 for the amount of 93,000 rupees to the order of the President of the Jewish Lay Council
of the Jewish Community and the President of the Jewish Schools Committee for Nuriel Primary School for Boys.
3 -- Check No. 210 dated 1/30/1942 for the amount of 80,000 rupees to the order of the President of ⟦the Council⟧ the persons mentioned
in paragraph 2 above for Midrash Talmud Torah School.
4 -- Check No. 211 dated 1/30/1942 for the amount of 20,000 rupees to the order of the persons mentioned in paragraph 2 above
for Rachel Shahmoon Primary School for Boys.
5 -- Check No. 212 dated 1/30/1942 for the amount of 7,330 rupees to the order of the persons mentioned in paragraph 2 above
for Menahem Salih Daniel Primary School for Girls.
3 -- Following the receipt of these checks, the Lay Council held several meetings with the Hospital and School Committees,
during which the current financial relations between the Council and the aforementioned institutions were discussed, as well as the financial state of the Council
and the current global circumstances that leave no room for spending the bequeathed money on the aforementioned institutions, and an
agreement was reached between the Council and the two mentioned committees on the following:-
- To be continued -